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The Caligula Effect: Overdose
The Caligula Effect: Overdose

Nov 27

Metroid: Zero Mission
Metroid: Zero Mission

Nov 26

Find Love or Die Trying
Find Love or Die Trying

Nov 03

Lunar Legend
Lunar Legend

Oct 24

Final Fantasy IV
Final Fantasy IV

Oct 12

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The gameplay is busted as hell in a way that makes it a tedious cakewalk. It's incredibly easy but I found myself avoiding combat as much as possible because it'd feel like a chore. There's some good ideas in the writing but the execution leaves much to be desired - for a game that ostensibly asks the player to have empathy for people with all sorts of physical and mental struggles, it thinks fat people are a punchline and trans people are disgusting perverts. That's all that needs to be said, really.

There's a moment in the game where a group of fat women are blocking the way. You get them to move by telling them there's a free buffet table. This causes them to run out of your way, shaking the screen while they move. This is played for laughs but it's delivered in such a lazy way that I can't even say it's a bad joke executed well!

A charming enough port of Lunar. It might lack the voice acting and anime cutscenes but there's some great spritework at play here. The localization is a mixed bag, thankfully it doesn't have the poorly aged punchup of Working Designs' translation, but Ubisoft(!) provides one that's just a little too dry. Though thankfully it doesn't have the bloat that WD introduced in their localizations of previous Lunar games; the GBA port might be the quickest to play through since the numbers aren't cranked up to prolong the game. It only took me about 10 hours and I never had to grind.

It's not the best version of the game but there's something to be said for how quaint it is that this exists; they could have repeated the same plot beat for beat but much like Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, each retelling of Lunar keeps the broad strokes but changes plenty of individual plot beats. I think that's neat as all hell!

For a full 3d remake it doesn't change enough for my tastes, the story additions are very limited and pointless. Still, it retains the core of Final Fantasy IV so it's a good game, just not the version of the game I would point folks towards for their first playthrough.